How to find wholesale suppliers who carry sunglasses made by Luxottica, Safilo, etc?

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How to find wholesale suppliers who carry sunglasses made by Luxottica, Safilo, etc?

Hi all,

We are selling sunglasses/optical glasses of our own brand. But, we don't have any physical retail stores yet, it seems not easy to get 'accounts' from those manufactures (am i right about this? any requirements to have accounts?).

Can anyone let me know how to find wholesale suppliers who carry sunglasses made by Luxottica, Safilo, etc? This may be an alternate way to have those designer glasses.

I know this is an old post so I'm hoping you have some info now on the above issue and that we can revisit this.

I was told recently that it had taken one guy 7 years to get an account with either Safilo or Luxottica (I forget which one). I'm also of the understanding that if you have accounts with Luxottica or Safilo that you MUST NOT sell sunglasses on to other business by way of wholesaing etc. If this is done, then you risk getting your account shut down.

I intend on speaking with both Lux and Saf but I guess I just wanted to hear about other people’s experiences with this subject prior and during my dialogue with the said companies. This appeared to be the most suitable forum to seek advice on such a subject. The subject of sunglasses suppliers seems to be very cloak and dagger to me, further enforced by the responses on this forum, I guess.

I know for Luxottica they require you to have a physical storefront. They will have the rep come out to your store location and they will check to make sure that your store is nice enough to carry their frames. They will also have minimum requirements. I recently opened an account with them and that's what they did for me at least. After that, depending on what brand you want, each brand has separate extra requirements and stipulations. Hope that helps!

Originally Posted by specs11

I intend on speaking with both Lux and Saf but I guess I just wanted to hear about other people’s experiences with this subject prior and during my dialogue with the said companies. This appeared to be the most suitable forum to seek advice on such a subject. The subject of sunglasses suppliers seems to be very cloak and dagger to me, further enforced by the responses on this forum, I guess.

???...are you kiddin me???? LUX wheels and deals just like everyone else...
just look at the sunglass sights
and every close out guy has all the branded lux products(exept chanel...they keep a tighter leash)

Most of the diverted Lux product ,except Ray Ban is often gray marketed through Mexico or the Philippines. Lux will sell Rayban to almost anyone with a pulse.

Both Lux and Saffilo don't have third party suppliers like you suggest here in the US, they are direct. So in looking for suppliers in the US will be fruitless. They do have 3rd parties in many countries but it always an exclusive deal, there is only 1 per country max.

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Most of the diverted Lux product ,except Ray Ban is often gray marketed through Mexico or the Philippines. Lux will sell Rayban to almost anyone with a pulse.

Both Lux and Saffilo don't have third party suppliers like you suggest here in the US, they are direct. So in looking for suppliers in the US will be fruitless. They do have 3rd parties in many countries but it always an exclusive deal, there is only 1 per country max.